This is one of those articles that is both fascinating, heartbreaking, and, in a way, pleasant in that the remaining living relatives have some closure in what’s left of their lives.
From CNN, the following article by Zoha Qamar, which tells us about…
Missing Swiss Couple Found Frozen In The Alps After 75 Years
At the risk of stepping all over the article, here’s two passages which recount what happened:
Marcelin, 40, and Francine, 37, Dumoulin went missing on August 15, 1942, after leaving to milk their cows in a meadow near their home. They never returned to their family, including their six children. A worker found the frozen bodies of a man and a woman last week during routine maintenance. The corpses were preserved in the receding Tsanfleuron glacier, near a slew of trendy ski resorts at 2,600 meters (8,500 feet) above sea level.
The corpses are indeed believed to be that of Marcelin and Francine and it was thought they fell through a crevasse and froze to death. Thanks to the receding glacier -perhaps a result of global warming- their corpses were discovered.
As heartbreaking as the story is, the fact that these now grown and elderly children finally get to know what happened to their parents must be a relief to them, if nothing else.